Michigan Laptop Store
Michigan Supreme Court Oral Arguments 2004-2005
The claimant, who worked at a clothing retailer, was fired for violating a policy that requires employees who return store merchandise to produce a receipt establishing the purchase price. She argues that she was similarly situated to a store manager who refused to allow a customer to return merchandise without a receipt, but was not fired. Did the claimant establish a prima facie case of discrimination? ... This case concerns the quantity of evidence needed to support a defendant's conviction for distributing or promoting child pornography. The defendant left files depicting children in sexual situations on an employer-owned laptop computer. Must the prosecutor show that the defendant intended for someone to see or receive those files? ... [Read More]
Private Funding Opportunities
The te@ch program, funded by Best Buy and operated by the Best Buy Children's Foundation, will award $2,500 to $1,200 schools across the U.S. that make learning fun by creatively integrating technology into school curriculum. The awards will be redeemable at Best Buy stores. Selected schools must be located within 25 miles of a Best Buy store and funds must be used to sustain or enhance an exisiting educational program. ... The Beaumont Foundation of America grants state-of-the-art, wireless laptop computers and technology equipment to schools and community groups serving low-income populations and individuals. In 2003, the Foundation awarded grants in 21 states and the District of Columbia. This year, eligible states are Arizona, Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Utah, Vermont, and Wisconsin. Additional grants will be available in subsequent years. ... [Read More]
FreedomCAR: Getting New Technology into the Marketplace
Ladies and gentlemen, in the next 10–20 years energy-efficient fuel cells will be powering many of our vehicles. And, because the technology is highly scalable, fuel cells can be used to power anything from a laptop computer to a hospital. Therefore, fuel cells will also be powering many of our homes and a host of other day-to-day products. ... The key technical principle underlying the Hyperdrive system is that it employs a unique method of control (use of the engine) that optimizes the operation of the internal combustion engine in hybrid electric vehicles.1B,,,,= This method of control results in the achievement of operational thermodynamic efficiencies1B of 32–34 percent as compared to the recognized maximal attainable efficiency of 35 percent for spark-ignition internal combustion engines. By way of comparison, the internal combustion engine in conventional vehicles typically operates at overall efficiencies of around 20 percent. Our improved overall operating efficiency is supported by the configuration of components in the Hyperdrive, including a lead-acid battery system that stores the energy generated by the engine (and regenerated while braking), and high-power electric motors that propel the vehicle when the engine cannot be used in its most efficient operating region. Recent advance ... [Read More]
EUVL Progress Report
TWENTY-FIVE years ago, the computing equivalent of today's laptop was a room full of computer hardware and a cartload of punch cards. ... The VNL's lithography system uses mirrors to project the image of a reflective mask onto the photoresist-coated semiconductor wafer. Ultimately, this system will enable a microchip to be manufactured with etched circuit lines smaller than 100 nanometers in width, extendable to below 30 nanometers. The resulting microprocessors would be a hundred times more powerful than those made today. Memory chips would be able to store a thousand times more information than at present. ... [Read More]
Federal Telemedicine Directory 1998 - Complete Project Listing By State
Another grant funds interactive (video conferencing) and store-and-forward (computer-based) technologies to connect seven sites under the Arizona Telemedicine Program. The federal grant focuses on three sites—a community health center, a hospital with an adjacent clinic, and a regional medical center with an extended long-term care facility. The network began with one site in May 1997. The other six facilities became operational in November 1997. The Arizona Telemedicine Program uses interactive video conferencing with peripherals such as electronic stethoscope, dermascope, ENT scope, digital camera, and store-and-forward (computer-based) technologies to provide clinical, administrative, and educational services to the sites. The Arizona Telemedicine Program will provide the following clinical telemedicine services: dermatology, pediatrics, cardiology, poison and drug information, neurology, psychiatry, endocrinology, oncology, emergency medicine, ophthalmology, infectious disease ... [Read More]
Recording Automotive Crash Event Data
To make EDR data available to all interested researchers, GM has selectedVetronix Corporation of Santa Barbara, California to develop software andinterface cables allowing the data to be downloaded to commonly used laptopcomputers (see Figure 6). Data useful to such researchers (_V, belt use,pre-impact data, etc.) will be stored and displayed in a standard formatusing engineering units while data requiring expert knowledge to interpretwill continue to be stored in hexadecimal format. The new tool will alsoallow the user to input other pertinent information (e.g., investigator'sname) and export the data to a remote database. Like the current EDRU,interface cables will be provided for vehicles that cannot be powered upafter a crash. These kits are expected to be commercially available duringthe summer of 1999 with the initial units going to GM and NHTSA crash investigators. ... [Read More]
Enforcing the ADA, Status Report from the Department of Justice, May - September 2001
Access Now v. The May Department Stores Company; Access Now v. Carnival Corporation -- The Department filed amicus briefs in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida objecting to the proposed nationwide class action settlement agreements reached by the private parties in these two cases because they would inappropriately limit the rights of people with disabilities. The settlement agreement in Access Now v. The May Department Stores Company addresses the physical accessibility of store aisles, check-out counters, bathrooms, and fitting rooms at over 350 May-owned department stores nationwide, including those of the Filene's, Hecht's, Foley's, Lord and Taylor, and Robinson's-May chains. In Access Now v. Carnival Corporation , the settlement agreement focuses on the physical accessibility of Carnival's 15 existing cruise ships and new ships that it constructs. The Department objected to these agreements for a number of procedural reasons including their broad cla ... [Read More]
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